{"id":631171,"date":"2026-04-27T04:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631171\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:32:15","slug":"daily-beast-boss-exposes-security-gaps-at-whcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631171\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Beast Boss Exposes Security Gaps at WHCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Daily Beast\u2019s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty, who was staying in the hotel room next door to the would-be assassin who targeted the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner on Saturday, appeared on MS NOW to discuss the gaping holes in the security surrounding the event. Dougherty detailed his experience as a guest at the Washington Hilton in an essay earlier in the day. \u201cA man who wanted to kill people\u2014many people, maybe me, maybe my colleagues\u2014had checked into the Washington Hilton, just like I had. He had used his access to move from floor 10 to the ballroom lobby, just like I had,\u201d Dougherty wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daily Beast\u2019s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty, who was staying in the hotel room next door to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,236263,236262,44,236265,236264],"class_list":{"0":"post-631171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gaping-holes","11":"tag-hugh-dougherty","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-room-next-door","14":"tag-the-daily-beast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}